Thematic Network on Quality Labelling And Certification of EHR Systems
EHR-QTN is a Thematic Network project that prepares the health community across Europe for systematic and comparable quality assurance and certification of e-Health products, more specifically of the Electronic Healthcare Record systems. The project fits with objective 1.6 of the 2nd Call for Proposals for the CIP-ICT PSP program: "Improving certification of eHealth products", more specifically where the work program refers to the "good practice requirements as elaborated by EuroRec".
Most national health authorities are willing to improve the quality, the functionality and the interoperability of the existing systems on their market.
Users of those systems would like to rely on a quality label when acquiring such an EHR system. Suppliers of the systems understand that quality assurance
can even be profitable for their business.
Starting certification nevertheless requires perseverance as it is often difficult
to deploy. EuroRec is offering tools to facilitate this deployment. A number
of sometimes essential stakeholders on the other hand still needs to be convinced.
This project promotes certification by organising national workshops in 27 different European countries, by validating the EuroRec functional
statements (over 1.400 statements), translating a substantial set of them in over 20 different European languages and by validating the EuroRec
certification tools and certification procedures. The focus functionalities of the validation and the translations to be addressed during the project
will be on medicinal product prescriptions, on medication management, on summary records as well as on generic statements regarding reliability and
trustworthiness of the systems and on security and access management.
The project will also deliver two complementary reports. The first
report will be, for each of the countries involved, an as complete
as possible EHR market overview encompassing the systems on the market and
their suppliers as well as user associations and the competent authorities,
possibly involved in favouring or enforcing EHR certification. The second
report will document possible roadmaps to sustainable certification, be it
on request of a supplier, nationally or even cross border.
| Project Outcomes |
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Reviews:
Progress reports:
Deliverable 6.6:
Deliverable 6.5:
Deliverable 6.4 Report on the third Annual EuroRec Conference:
Deliverable 6.3:
Deliverable 6.2:
Deliverable 6.1:
Deliverable 5.2 Roadmap:
Deliverable 3.1 EHR Market Overview European Perspective:
Other results
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Who are the beneficiaries?
| Beneficiaries |
| European Institute for Health Records: coordinator |
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| ProRec
Austria |
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| ProRec Belgium |
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| RAMIT |
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| ProRec Bulgaria |
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| Hrvatsko drustvo za medicinsku informatiku |
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| Cypriotic
Society for Medical Informatics |
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| České národní fórum
pro eHealth, o.s |
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| MEDIQ A/S |
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| Eesti E-tervise Sihtasutus |
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| ProRec Germany |
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| Foundation
for Research and Technology – Hellas |
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| National Institute for Strategic Health Research - ESKI |
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| ProRec
Ireland - Irish Centre for Health Telematics Ltd |
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| ProRec Italy |
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| CRP Henri Tudor - SANTEC |
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| Stichting ProRec Nederland |
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| KITH AS |
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| Marshal's Office of the Lodz Region |
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| Administraçao
Central do Sistema de Saúde, I. P. |
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| ProRec
Romania - Romanian Association for Electronic Registration of
Medical Data |
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| ProRec
Serbia - Srpsko udruženje za elektronski zdravstveni karton |
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| ProRec centrum Slovensko |
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| Ustanova
- ProRec Slovenia |
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| Hospital Universitario de Fuenlabrada |
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| Instituto de Salud Carlos III |
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| ProRec United Kingdom |
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| Centro Poliklinika Vilnius - Lithuania |
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| Associated partners |
| Ministry for Social Policy - Malta |
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